There are now numerous export file formats including: PDF, JPG, TIF, PNG, and other popular formats.

Editing

Copy Brush – allows you to copy an existing and active Brush to the clipboard so that you may transfer it to another Stitch Painter document without needing to save the brush first.

Paste to Brush – allows you to paste any Stitch Painter image on the clipboard directly to a brush (in the same or new document). It is not necessary to have a brush first.

Insert Rows and Columns – There are numerous functions that allow you to insert rows and/or columns within a document. This is very controllable.

Flip and Rotate functions for brushes (motifs)

Brushes

Brushes are motifs or selected groups of stitches that you can create, save, utilize etc.

There are various commands related to brushes that allow you great flexibility in design including flipping, rotating, and resizing.

Layout

Show Rulers – These display a ruler around your document, set to count stitches and rows. You can easily see you location. If you are making a selection or drawing with a shape tool, you can easily count stitches on the rulers as well.

Various functions related to designing in Repeat.

Size From Brush– Can set repeat size from the current brush size.

Working Area – which allows you to set a specific area for repeat work (excellent for fairilse design).

Palette Menu

Ability to create gradients between two colors.

Ability to control settings for background, line, grid, transparency, etc.

Rotate Items – lets you rotate colors on a document between selected colors in the Palette panel.

Select Items Used in Document – lets you select the colors/symbols, etc. used in a document to be the active colors. This is a great prelude step to the Rotate Items menu above.

Ability to setup and create a Stencil, which allows you to lock or unlock colors/stitches on your document to facilitate the design process.

Quick Summary of Features

A working Palette of 250 colors in any given document pulling from the full color range of your computer. You may combine colors, symbols, and textures in this palette.

The creation of stitches with a pen, line or shape tools or a brush/stamp.

The ability to flip, rotate, or even resize your motifs.

The ability to design in repeat.

Stencils to protect certain colors/textures/symbols as you draw.

Grids which can be re-proportioned, scaled down, and/or taken to other applications via the clipboard or export function.

Grid numbering on your printout.

Tools that measure in stitches and rows as you draw.

The ability to count the number of stitches of each color on the screen.

The ability to change grid colors or use a texture for the grid.

Major and minor grids allowing demarcations for easy reading of graphs.

Export functions.

A transparent feature that allows selected Colors/Textures to become transparent when you create a brush – useful for coordinate fabrics.

The ability to design in repeat in selected areas of the screen.

The ability to turn the grid off in given areas, allowing you to see the stair stepping of stitches (for shaping) or to create stitch keys.

The ability to ‘regrid’ a design, moving from one proportion grid to another. This is wonderful for translating cross stitch patterns to knitting (or vice versa) or for translating from one knit gauge to the other.

Tutorial Videos

Seven videos (QuickTime) are included with Stitch Painter. These walk you through all the workings of the software, plus Tutorials. Over an hour of training!!